by Charlie Barnett | Dec 28, 2022 | Charlie's Blog, News, Theatre
Here is the link to all my plays! https://newplayexchange.org/users/8897/charlie-barnett
by Charlie Barnett | Jul 24, 2022 | Charlie's Blog, News
This fall, I will be doing a workshop performance of my musical The Last Days of Cleopatra, a farce about the scandalous lovers Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and the making of one of the worst movies ever made: 1962’s Cleopatra. Everything about this show...
by Charlie Barnett | Jul 1, 2022 | Charlie's Blog, News
The new Civil Rights musical that I started in April of 2020, When We Get There, has finally found its way to the stage, with two readings in New York’s West Village on June 27 and 28. I wrote the music and lyrics for the show, and my collaborators Richard...
by Charlie Barnett | Feb 25, 2022 | Charlie's Blog, Home Page, News
In December, after working together online for nearly two years, I finally met one of my two collaborators on the musical When We Get There, which tells the story of a road trip to the fateful 1965 voting rights march in Selma, Alabama. Richard Lasser of Seattle, who...
by Charlie Barnett | Jan 30, 2022 | Home Page, News
The String Queens, a Washington, DC, trio, are on the rise. Since playing at the Biden inauguration last year, the three musicians seem to be everywhere. I was honored to be asked to arrange the orchestral music for their debut concert with the Capital City Symphony...
by Charlie Barnett | Jan 1, 2022 | Charlie's Blog, Home Page, News
My bucket list of film projects just got smaller: I finally had the chance to score a real detective film noir. Private is a black-and-white two-hander starring its director, Steve Blackwood, and one of my favorite actors, Sandy Bainum. During the course of the...
